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Copyleft. GovTrack.us is a website developed by then-student Joshua Tauberer. It is based in Washington, D.C., and was launched as a hobby. [1] It enables its users to track the bills and members of the United States Congress. Users can add trackers to certain bills, thereby narrowing the scope of the information they receive.
Jeff Duncan (politician) Jeffrey Darren Duncan (born January 7, 1966) is a United States representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district since 2011. His district comprises nine counties, two of these counties being manufacturing centers for the state.
Martin–Quinn scores or M-Q scores are dynamic metrics used to gauge the ideology of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice based on their voting record. Therefore, a jurist's score will continuously change, unlike static measures of ideology such as the Segal–Cover score and Judicial Common Space score. [1] Martin–Quinn scores are among the most ...
NOMINATE (scaling method) W-NOMINATE coordinates of members of the 111th House of Representatives. NOMINATE (an acronym for Nominal Three-Step Estimation) is a multidimensional scaling application developed by US political scientists Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal in the early 1980s to analyze preferential and choice data, such as ...
The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 7 in 10 Americans think the high court's justices are more influenced by ideology, while only about 3 i
If both senators are from another party, then neither senator's score is used. [3] The judge is placed on a spectrum of liberal and conservative. A score of "0" indicates no ideological leaning towards either philosophy. A score of -1 is the most liberal ideology, while a score of 1 is the most conservative. [4]
Eighteen states allow ranked-choice voting in some capacity, according to Ballotpedia. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine use it in certain federal and statewide elections. Virginia’s state law allows for ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the country's highest federal court. The Court has ultimate—and largely discretionary — appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of U.S. federal law, plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. The nine Supreme Court justices base their ...